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'''The attached article''', taken from Reader Digest November 1952 (Condensed from Chatelaine, and written by Alma Edwards Smith), tells of the hope given by William Branham and the medical profession to the father of the boy, then the heartbreaking passing, of little Donny Morton. It reminds us that God's ways are not our ways, and in everything - good and bad - He has a plan for our lives.  This is also a reminder that Donny Morton, like all the other testimonies on this website, was a real person.   

Why did William Branham state - "The Lord healed him, made him well" - when the little lad started on the road to healing but ultimately died.

The boy died of a combination of meningitis and pneumonia.  Pneumonia often occurs when a person's immune system is weak.  What kind of theology states that God has healed a little boy of meningitis and then allows him to die a few months later from pneumonia as he starts to recover?

<div style="border-bottom:1px #B87333 solid; text-align:center; font-size:140%; padding:1px; margin:1px;">William Branham's Version of the Story</div>

DEMONOLOGY OWENSBORO.KY  53-1112

:And I brought the little baby up, said, never asked a question but looked right into the little baby's face and said, "You bring this baby from Canada. And you come here by a bus, a Greyhound Bus. Traveler's Aid has helped you." And he'd been there about five minutes. Said, "Traveler's Aid has helped you to get here. And the baby has been to Mayo Brothers and Johns Hopkins. It's got a rare brain disease, and there's no way for them to operate. The baby must die."

:The daddy went back to plant his spring wheat or something another. Now, here's what the "Digest" didn't get (See?), what didn't picture. But we had to know behind, because if you did, that a hospital would bring suit against this paper, and there's where it would be; a slip-up come. Somebody left a window up one night and throwed a draft across the baby. '''And the baby taken pneumonia and lived about two days with the pneumonia, not with the disease, with the pneumonia killed the baby.''' The "Reader's Digest" give it. Then it goes ahead and gives a nice good write up about--about the miracle was already performed anyhow.

GOD.PERFECTING.HIS.CHURCH BINGHAMTON.NY  54-1204

:He that receives truth... Here not long ago, you seen the article in the paper of that little Donny Morton being healed out there in California. The "Reader's Digest" packed it, went in every language under heaven, everywhere, about the miracle. Mayo Brothers had turned him down. John Hopkins had turned him down. The little fellow come on the platform and twenty-seven hundred people standing in the prayer line. Assembly of God, place we was having the meeting, out in Costa Mesa, California.

:And the man like to have fainted. '''And the Holy Spirit spoke THUS SAITH THE LORD. And the baby got well.'''  

GLORIFIED.JESUS  PHOENIX.AZ  55-0225

:Notice, someone then, about a year later, you read the Reader's Digest, of my meeting in California, down there at the campgrounds, when they brought that little Donny Morton. Many of you has read it, no doubt. From Donny Morton, the miracle, when they brought him down out of Canada and give a wonderful write up, how he come to the platform., little fellow, twisted all out of condition. And how, said, the evangelist never asked one question but looked straight at the child, and told him where he come from, how he'd been to Mayo Brother's, and turned down and everything. And just exactly how the outcome of the child would be. And it was just exactly word by word.

ABRAHAM  BROOKLYN.NY  56-1208

:Now, I've been interviewed. You read the "Reader's Digest" about a year or something ago, in October a year ago or something like that on the healing of little Donny Morton, that Mayo Brothers had give up. And they brought him to the platform in California, '''and there the vision showed the little boy was healed''' (see?), and they packed a big article of it, and I was at Mayo Brothers for an interview. All right.

STAND.STILL.AND.SEE.THE.SALVATION.OF.THE.LORD  CHICAGO.IL  57-0629

:It wasn't two years ago, October's this year, the "Reader's Digest," when God made Mayo Clinic stand still and hear the testimony of little Donny Morton on that incurable disease, when he was brought to the platform and the Holy Spirit told him exactly what to do, and God healed the boy there.

:The scientific world, John Hopkins and Mayo's, when I went there, there lay the "Reader's Digest" on their platform, or on their table there, to be read. God made the medical world stand still and see Donny Morton be healed by the power of God.

HEAR.YE.HIM  CHATTANOOGA.TN  58-0301E

:Let me just show you a little something. Of all the fine medicines we got (to settle this)... Now, I was interviewed. Many of you read the "Reader's Digest" of the miracle of Donny Morton.

:And I was interviewed at Mayo Brothers Clinic on account of that, 'cause Mayo's had turned him down. And the vision told him who he was, where he come from, what was going to happen. And that's just the way it was, and the baby was healed.

And they wrote it up in "Reader's Digest."  

BE.NOT.AFRAID.IT.IS.I  PHOENIX.AZ  60-0305

:''Many of you, about three years ago in Reader's Digest, read the article of the miracle of Donny Morton, when I was in Arizona, I mean in California. How the Lord, after Mayo's, and John Hopkins, and all of them had turned that little twisted up baby down, the power of God unfolded that child and made him well. And Mayo's called for an interview for it, wanted to know what happened. Sure. Reader's Digest wrote it up. What happened to little Donny, that little Canadian boy?

:''And he started screaming; he said, "With all my heart."

:''He went right straight from that meeting that night and bought Donny his first pair of shoes, and he wore them the next day.  

ABRAHAM  YAKIMA.WA  60-0803

:When I--I was interviewed at Mayo's Clinic. They said to me, "We do not..." The old Jimmy Mayo in the old Mayo brothers had a thing back there in the office, where you used to have there. They took me back and showed me, when this Donny Morton... How many read the Reader's Digest? When Mayo's had turned him down, and everything, and come out there to California, and down out of Canada... '''The Lord healed him, made him well.'''

BALM.IN.GILEAD  LONG.BEACH.CA  61-0218

:''I was interviewed at Mayo's; you seen it in the "Reader's Digest," and so forth, Donny Morton, was healed up here.  

A.GREATER.THAN.SOLOMON.IS.HERE  PORT.ALBERNI.BC  62-0725

:''When this little Canadian, Donny Morton... You read the story in "Reader's Digest," when they brought him all the way down there so spastic and drawed that John Hopkins, Mayo Brothers, and all, turned him down. And he came down to Costa Mesa, and was in the meeting. And the Holy Spirit spoke. "Reader's Digest" wrote up, said the--said, "The evangelist didn't ask the boy. He told the boy who he was, told him what he had done, and where he come from, and what about it." And he was healed. See?

:''So he said, "We're not whipped, Donny. Let's go and tell..." And the mother and them thought they could maybe take fifty dollars, and all of them come to the United States, and take Donny to the meeting, and everything else. It wouldn't even pay one of their ways on a airplane. They had to come by a bus, couldn't even come by train. And when they got there, they had to take Travelers Aid to get out there to where the meeting was.

:''And the Holy Spirit told him who he was, where he come from, and so forth--little drawed-over father, holding his baby. And so... Then it told him exactly what would happen. '''The Lord healed the child to the glory of God.'''  

HIS.UNFAILING.WORDS.OF.PROMISE  PHOENIX.AZ  64-0120

:''And you seen it in Reader's Digest, not long ago, Donny Morton, The Miracle of Donny Morton. That little child right there in California, at the Assemblies of God, down there at that school, Southwestern Bible School, that child was so twisted and afflicted till even John Hopkins and Mayo Brothers said, "There's not an earthly chance for him." '''But the Lord is THUS SAITH THE LORD. That was different, see.'''

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